Word: surfeited
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...same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates “Buy Nothing Day.” “I think we’re becoming somewhat of a throw-away society rather than valuing things,” Das said, according to a press release issued by Adbusters Media...
...pillbox-hatted attendant who had served gin martinis) and drove to a local place to eat crunchy fried chicken and flaky blueberry pie. I like to imagine the gentleman then retreated to a downtown hotel where he ordered whiskey in a heavy-bottomed glass cold from a surfeit of ice cubes...
...story on that night's late news, I was playing host to a 5-year-old's birthday party, with attendees who included Ella, Ella, Stella, Ale (pronounced Ellay), Elee (same) and Belle, the princess I had rented. I don't know if my suggestibility was caused by a surfeit of medication?in this case, Ritalin?or of liquid consonants, but I agreed...
...result is a kind of echo chamber in which good news can prevail over bad--even when there is a surfeit of evidence to the contrary. For example, a source tells TIME that four days after Katrina struck, Bush himself briefed his father and former President Clinton in a way that left too rosy an impression of the progress made. "It bore no resemblance to what was actually happening," said someone familiar with the presentation...
...Harvard sailing team continued to cogitate on how to optimize its surfeit of skippers, using another early-season team race regatta this weekend to tinke with its A-team lineup...